[quote]Looking at your photo, the fork in the background is in focus so as I said at the start, you are too close![/quote]
Impossible, like I said if that lens had been set to super macro mode you would not be seeing that fork, dof will be extremely shallow and that fork would be out of range to focus on.
Not sure how super macro is set up on the XZ-1, either via the menu or some custom button, but it will need setting.

Quote:Looking at your photo, the fork in the background is in focus so as I said at the start, you are too close!

Impossible, like I said if that lens had been set to super macro mode you would not be seeing that fork, dof will be extremely shallow and that fork would be out of range to focus on.

Not sure how super macro is set up on the XZ-1, either via the menu or some custom button, but it will need setting.

So I have been doing a bit of practice. I have found that the camera has a digital zoom which allows me to hold the camera back and zoom in closer. Its a start. I shall play with that for a bit and see what happens. One step at a time ;)
@joshwa I have found the super macro but I am not able to use the flash with it so the picture comes out dark (on setting P), a picture of the Computer screen comes out ok..
@Paul that photo is amazing, what were your settings on that? When I have it on super macro the picture comes out dark.
Its fun when something works :D

So I have been doing a bit of practice. I have found that the camera has a digital zoom which allows me to hold the camera back and zoom in closer. Its a start. I shall play with that for a bit and see what happens. One step at a time

@joshwa I have found the super macro but I am not able to use the flash with it so the picture comes out dark (on setting P), a picture of the Computer screen comes out ok..

@Paul that photo is amazing, what were your settings on that? When I have it on super macro the picture comes out dark.

All the digital zoom is doing is cropping to the centre of the frame. You are losing quality in the same way you would if you cropped the wider picture in Photoshop.
Better to utilise the macro mode as Paul says - that will give a full-quality image with more information to work with. You also get much closer, which seems to be what you want.
Nick

All the digital zoom is doing is cropping to the centre of the frame. You are losing quality in the same way you would if you cropped the wider picture in Photoshop.

Better to utilise the macro mode as Paul says - that will give a full-quality image with more information to work with. You also get much closer, which seems to be what you want.